Atacadão is a Brazilian chain of warehouse stores. It was established by Alcides Parizotto and then became property of the Lima family and the executives Farid Curi and Herberto Uli Schmeil. In 2007, it was bought by Carrefour for R$2,2 billion Reais. In 2010, the company has 102 stores and 7 distribution centers in 26 Brazilian states. The company competes with Assaí Atacadista, owned by Cassinò. Atacadão also runs hypermarkets in Morocco and France,[1] where it is present along with its parent company Carrefour.[2]
On 12 April 2022 the company completed 60 years of history with more than 60 thousand employees.
History
Atacadão was founded in 1962, in the city of Maringá in Paraná, by Alcides Parizotto,[3] who was in charge of the network until 1991, the year he left the organization,